The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-08-21
DRAMATIC AND LYRIC.
The Daily Company and Its
First Lady.
A GREAT OPEN ALB OCCASION
The Raise In Prices-Pserless Ada
Shakespeare at FEeBco
Notes,

The Daily Company wound up their
San Francisco engagement last night,
and left this morning for Salt Lake,
where they viii appear Tuesday and
Wednesday evenings. There will be nc
matinee, despite the announcement on
the big bills.
The sale commences tomorrow
morning, and despite the Jump in
prices, there will probably be the big
gest rush at the box Office seen this
summer; there has been some remark
regarding the advance in rates, and q
good many people who will not pay
$3.50 and who will not go up stairs, may
remain away. Ali that can be said of
the matter. however, is that in every
city. theatre goers are accustomed to
an advance in rates for the highest
class attractions; the local management
haYe no voice in the matter. for
those attractions are just high and
mighty enough to lay down the Law for
themselves and to say they will simply
play at their own prices-S1.50 is the
rate all the year round at Days Home
Theatre-or they will not play st all.
Without saying anything as to the
rightfulness or Hrongfulness of such q
demand, it is certain that If increased
rates are ever iustidRble-they are
justifable when demanded for such a
company of players as that which DAILY
has marshalled together.
1t is TO be hoped that the public will
take note of the advertisement which
asks them to be seated punctuslly at g.,
as the curtain will rise sharp at that
hour; the quaint introduction in the
Tanning of the Shrew, never given in
other renditions of Shakespeare's
Corners and will be inaudible to the early
noise and paraHe.
OF course, the one person in Mr..
Days company, who stands out most
prominently in the recollection of Salt
Lakers is Ada Rehan. Of this charm
ing actress, one of our leading critics
observes:
To Augustin DAILY we owe the one perfect
also owe 20 him the development of Ada
Rehan into what she is to-day-the foremo.t
comedienne of the English speaking sts ge.
When DAILY fret cast Miss Rehan into mis-
plays she was in the first flush of young
womGnhood; moderately tall, she possessed
form to which increasing years have only
added in beauty. 1t was not long before her
smile, captivating in the extreme, drew to
the house everyone, both old and young,
and it became quite the rage to go and see
fol f0r har
stely for thu stage, her success by no means
turned her head, it only made her work the
harder and become yet more ambitious.
She was cast as leading lady ia all of Days
comedies, and through long list OF these
sustained her reputation and added to her
laurels. In Dollars and Sense, Love on
Clutches, A Night Of, Nancy & Co., her act
ing is above comment. Miss Rehan's great
stronghold Is in her womanliness, which she
never loses for q moment. As q sighted
nlant tones, her walk, her every gesture,
shows the woman who feels herself
sighted, aud yet who is only too
Wiling to find some excuse to
with which in Love on Crutches," she
throws herelf in her husbands arms, when
she discovers that he is really her ideal the |
tone and the manner in which, in Names
q Co, she reproaehes "Tippy Bracher" for |
distrusting her, win all hearts to her She |
has ever been cast with Mr.. John Drew, and |
to this finished comedian s acting she doubt
less owes much of the effect she produces |
When the DAILY troupe first visited England |
the English critics could. see little merit in |
her acting and passed her by as an
eccentric" Coincidence On her second |
tour, however, she carried everything before |
her like storm, both in London and the |
provinces, whilst Paris and Berlin were
alke enraptured by her acting. But it is in
DAYS last success, the Tanning of the |
Shrew,' that she has gained her most COM
plete triumph as katherine " She is as
perfect termagent as could well be mag
lned, and when at last she yields to her
master she does it with loneliness which
the beholder will ever remember. 1t is to be |
that the study to which she has so
lndefat1gably subjected herself has told |
somewhat upon her health, which a relaxa-
aOn may restore.
Shakespeare Al FrescO.
MAsCoNoMo House, MANCHEsTER-sy-
August S.-Shakespeare's
woodland comedy, As you Like 1t, in
he light of broad day, on the lawn
between the Masconomo House and the
lea, with no canopy save that of the
ky, with no scenery but natures own,
With a cast that were mostly we'll
Known stars, was given this afternoon
n aid of the actors fund. A more
nearly perfect day for this unique per
ormance could not have bsen selected.
The broad lawn was closely clipped, a
arge tent spread on q score of poles.
900 camp chairs we're ranged in line,
md veritable Forest of Arden en-
RATED into the green sward. The
were made by Manager
ohm B. Schoeffel, of the Park Theatre.
nd the performance was rendered by
drs. Agnes Booth-Schoeffel
At an early hour many guests began
o arrive, and the special train at noon !
rought 200 New Workers, who had
ONE specially to see the performance.
With them were half the dramatic pro
essi0n of Boston, and later two taIIy- ,
10 coaches arrived from the Hub and
Mother from Nantasket Beach. with 7
ieorge N. Lloyd, Nat Goodwin's man.
ger, blowing the horn. Promptly at t
30 pm. Edward Aronson's orchestra. {
nder the direction of J. J. Braham. l
pened with Merry Wives of Wind
Dr." and moment later Mrs. Agnes !
'ooth-Schoefel appeared before the t
erdant footlights of shining blades of I
rasS, and read w. F. w. Balls pro- '
'gue, written for the occasion. Her t
ppearauce vas greeted with applause
nd followed by an enthusiastic re- {